Rock Pools

Rock Pools

Coledale Baths (Coledale Pool, Coledale Rock Pool), NSW

Pool with starting blocks sited on a wide rock platform. Built during World War I.

6 Dec 2015 · 5 min read

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Collins Point Baths

Remnants of superseded baths begun in 1898. (Baths at Collins Rocks, old Woonona Baths)

6 Dec 2015 · 2 min read

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Cronulla Children’s Pool

The Children’s Pool cut out of the rock shelf is the middle of the three ocean baths between North Cronulla Beach and South Cronulla Beach and linked to Cronulla’s other ocean pools by The Esplanade, a popular walking track. Close to a railway station. (Cronulla Rock Pool, Cronulla Wading Pool)

6 Dec 2015 · 2 min read

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Cronulla’s northernmost pool

Northernmost of the three ocean baths on the rock platform between North Cronulla Beach and South Cronulla Beach and linked to Cronulla’s other ocean pools by The Esplanade, a popular walking track. Closer to a railway station than any other ocean baths in Sydney. No pumps are needed at these baths or at any of Cronulla’s other ocean baths. (North Cronulla Rock Pool, Cronulla Ocean Pool, Cronulla Beach Pool, Cronulla McDonald Street Pool)

6 Dec 2015 · 4 min read

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Cronulla South Pool

This is the main Cronulla pool, an Olympic-size 8-lane pool. No pumps are needed at this pool or at any of Cronulla’s other ocean pools. A short walk from the railway station. (South Cronulla Rock Pool, Cronulla Main Pool, Cronulla Rock Pool)

6 Dec 2015 · 2 min read

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Currarong Pools (Currarong Rock Channels), NSW

Natural pools. The only evident man-made improvements are the set of stairs with a handrail leading to the pool and the signboard erected by Shoalhaven City Council. These pools are not far from the wreck of the Merimbula and Currarong is the settlement nearest to the Point Perpendicular lighthouse on Jervis Bay.

6 Dec 2015 · 1 min read

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Little Austinmer Children’s Pool

Children’s bathing pool at the foot of the steep cliff of Austinmer’s Brickyard Point, easily accessed from neighbouring beaches. Largely covered by sand back in 2003. (Austinmer Children’s Baths)

6 Dec 2015 · 3 min read

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Little Bay Rock Pool

A ring-of-rocks pool constructed with beach rocks on the south tip of Little Bay in the grounds of what was the Prince Henry Hospital, ANZAC Parade, Little Bay. (Little Bay Rock Pool or Little Bay Baths)

6 Dec 2015 · 5 min read

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Oak Park Pool

The southernmost of Cronulla’s rock pools. Located below Oak Park with its distinctive dressing-pavilion. No pumps are needed at these baths or at any of Cronulla’s other ocean baths. Linked to Cronulla’s other ocean pools by The Esplanade, a popular walking track. (Oak Park Rock Pool, Oak Park Ocean Baths, Glaisher Point Baths)

6 Dec 2015 · 6 min read

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Pheasant Point Baths

Ocean baths sited on the rock platform at Pheasant Point on the north side of Kiama’s harbour at the north end of the Black Beach Reserve. Occupies a site associated with ocean pools of various kinds since the 1870s. (Kiama Ladies Baths, Kiama Olympic Pool)

6 Dec 2015 · 5 min read

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Men’s Baths (ghost pool) Boat Harbour

A ghost pool. Remnants of baths cut into the wide rock platform at Gerringong’s Boatharbour, south of the modern boat ramp.

6 Dec 2015 · 4 min read

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Shelly Beach Pool

A rock pool located below Cronulla’s Shelly Park with its distinctive dressing pavilion. Linked to Cronulla’s other ocean pools by The Esplanade, a popular walking track. (Shelly Beach Rock Pool , Shelly Park Rock Pool, Shelly Beach Baths)

6 Dec 2015 · 3 min read